Delivered by Dr. Carl Clarkson, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an active researcher, this foundation course is specifically tailored to Dentists. A unique blend of online and face-to-face teaching ensures that course delegates will use acupuncture and dry needling as part of their everyday practice safely, confidently and effectively.
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On course completion, integrate acupuncture into your standard day to day practice
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This foundation course has a global reputation and has cemented Breeze Academy as one of the leading providers of western medical acupuncture and dry needling training worldwide. Delivered by Carl, Claire, Nikki, Helen, Chelsey and Lynn, the course consists of a unique blend of online and face-to-face teaching.
Once successfully completed, we ensure that our foundation course delegates can use medical acupuncture and dry needling as part of their everyday practice safely, confidently and effectively.
Any questions about this course or any other, please get in touch directly to our email: en[email protected]. You can also book directly on this page.
The objectives of our acupuncture foundation course are:
To implement safe & effective acupuncture and dry needling techniques, throughout the body
To create targeted acupuncture and needling protocols for the benefit of pain & wellbeing
To appraise & synthesise the evidence base alongside clinical experience
To adopt a pragmatic approach to clinical reasoning for needling interventions that complement your existing skills
In this foundation course, you will receive a fully evidence-based approach to the implementation of medical acupuncture and dry needling, allowing you to make fully informed decisions on how and when to introduce acupuncture and dry needling into a client’s care package.
As part of our evidence-based approach, you will discover the large body of prominent, pertinent and up-to-date evidence supporting the use of acupuncture and dry needling, whilst developing your needling skills to provide dramatic results for your clients, offering them a comprehensive package of pain relief and wellbeing.
More specifically, after completing our medical acupuncture and dry needling foundation course you will be able to demonstrate the following needling skills and theoretical knowledge:
Effective needling techniques upon the four limbs, trunk and spine, head and face
Suitable identification of prominent and commonly used acupoints
An understanding of contraindications, precautions and potential side effects of acupuncture and dry needling
Safe application of needling at all times
Effective management of needling side effects
After you graduate, you will be able to use acupuncture and dry needling as part of your everyday practice safely, confidently and effectively.
With theoretical knowledge and application considered from both a Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective, this course takes you through a large number of applications and techniques, allowing you to confidently apply acupuncture for the treatment of acute and persistent pain, as well as for stress & anxiety, temporomandibular disorder, facial neuralgias, burning mouth syndrome, facial palsy, gagging and xerostomia.
Dentists who use acupuncture do so as an alternative to invasive interventions and medication, and as an approach to allow more traditional dentistry to take place where pain, anxiety or gagging may impede a procedure. This course is designed for Dentists looking to offer a more complete package of treatment options for pain relief and wellbeing to their clients, whilst also wanting to expand their clinical knowledge and advance their own career and professional development.
Unique Blend Of Online & Face To Face
Carefully curated online content, both before and after the face-to-face component, allows you to access high quality education whenever and wherever you want, helping to reduce accommodation costs for those of you needing to travel to the face-to-face component, whilst also providing you the option to revisit theory in an engaging format, whenever and wherever suits you best.
Fully Evidence-Based Approach
Expert research knowledge is combined with practical, clinically relevant teaching to ensure you receive a fully evidence-based approach to the implementation of acupuncture. This course has clinical reasoning at the heart of delivery, making sure that you’re able to make fully informed decisions on how and when to introduce acupuncture into a client’s care package.
Your online learning access will expire 1 month following the face to face component of the course.
You will need to be a qualified Dentist, or in the final year of training to become a regulated Dentist.
Meet your tutor
Dr. Carl Clarkson
Qualifications
PhD, Acupuncture and Women’s Health, Northumbria University
MSc, Acupuncture, Coventry University
PGCE, Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching, Teeside University
BSc, Physiotherapy, Northumbria University
Achievements
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, HEA
Over a decade ago, I had an ambitious vision – create exceptional learning experiences for healthcare professionals. My career began in 2004 as a Physiotherapist, where a passion for helping people was...
Prior to the face-to-face session, you will complete safety lessons on our online platform. You will learn:
Contraindications and precautions
Adverse events
How to deal with adverse events
Needle insertion fundamentals take you through video demonstrations of how we choose needle size, and how we can clinically reason our acupoint choices, no matter which part of the body is needled
An introduction to meridians - the essential map needed to guide you on locating acupoints
Pain physiology and the impact acupuncture has on descending inhibition
Online Learning Post Face-To-FaceOnline
To contextualise acupuncture and dry needling within Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), you will access a number of lessons that discuss TCM philosophy through our online platform.
Your assessment, consisting of several multi-choice tests focused upon case studies, will also be accessed via our online platform at this stage, which you will gain access to once you have completed the face-to-face workshop and have paid for the course in full.
Face-to-face day 1
A fully practical workshop, looking to introduce and develop basic acupuncture needling skills. Temporomandibular disorder, Neuralgias, Headaches, acute and persistent Oro-facial pain are all covered, with learning consolidated through case study activities.
Face-to-face day 2
A fully practical workshop, allowing you to further develop and hone your needling skills. Stress & anxiety, gagging, xerostomia, facial palsy, and burning mouth syndrome are all covered, with learning again consolidated through case study activities.
Online Learning Post Face-To-FaceOnline
To contextualise acupuncture and dry needling within Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), you will access a number of lessons that discuss TCM philosophy through our online platform.
Your assessment, consisting of several multi-choice tests focused upon case studies, will also be accessed via our online platform at this stage, which you will gain access to once you have completed the face-to-face workshop and have paid for the course in full.
Post Course SupportOnline
Following completion of your final online training element, you will continue to receive support from Dr. Clarkson via email or tele-conferencing to help guide you when beginning to introduce acupuncture and dry needling into your usual practice.
